Monday, January 23, 2017

Working Hard-Lake Charles

Hey everybody!This week was pretty wild, a lot of it was spent trying to set upbaptisms for the end of the week and planing when the rest of thedistrict can have their baptismal interviews for their investigators,which turned out to be a lot more trouble than we first thought! Wewill be having a baptism on Friday though, our investigator Joyce isgetting baptized! And so are the kids of a family Elder Dominguez andElder Crim taught before I got here, their mom was baptized lasttransfer, so now it's her kids turn! And it's been quite the adventuretrying to get them ready! The devil was working hard to try and keepthem from it for this next week, but Elder Crim and I decided to fastand pray about when they could be baptized and right before ourlesson with them yesterday evening, we both agreed that the Lord wantsthem baptized this week, now or never, get it done! So we went intothe lesson with that mindset, and it was actually the best lessonwe've had with them in a while! The kids were paying way moreattention than usual, and by the end of it they were really excitedabout the baptism! So now it's our job to make sure they're ready byFriday no matter what!Joyce is also doing really well, in our last lesson we taught her shetold us about the first day we contacted her, here's the story:Elder Crim and I were tracting in the ghetto, like we do, looking forpeople to teach, when we saw her standing out in her pajamas by herfront door wearing a shower cap, so we decided to go up and startsharing the gospel with her. On her side of the story, apparently, shewas wanting to just turn inside and brush us off without talking, butsomething told her to stay out and talks to those nice boys, they havesomething important to tell you! So she stayed and listened to us, andeven told us about her New Years resolution to quit smoking, which shehas been keeping for 23 days now! She is so prepared and I'm soexcited for her to be a member of Christ's church!That's about it for this week, I sure do love y'all, but I love theLord more! I'm starting into my last six months out here (so weird!)and so I've decided to start having a pondering scripture each week,this weeks is D&C 88:125, read it live it love it y'all!Love,Elder MurdockTrue to the Faith